Sitaram Diwan Chand: Masterclass & Recipes

Pamela Timms — Tue, 26 May 2009 03:17:10 +0000

When conniving Mughal upstart Aurangzeb imprisoned his father, Emperor Shah Jehan, in Agra Fort in 1657, he told him he could choose just one thing to eat every day for the rest of his life. The old man chose chick peas because the prison cook told him he would be able to make something different [...]

Kuremal’s Kulfis: Masterclass and Recipes

Pamela Timms — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 06:15:00 +0000

The best ices in Delhi? It’s a big claim, but these are kulfis with a pedigree.

The Kuremal family have been making kulfi in the old city since 1908 when Pandit Kuremal left his ancestral village in Haryana at the age of 8 to seek fame and fortune in the big city. He learned the [...]

Faqiri Muamalaat

Pamela Timms — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 07:02:26 +0000

EOiD trips are always an adventure, but the vegetarian excursions are a particular delight. Not because we’re all militant meat-haters. Quite the reverse in fact. However, despite the fact that most of us believe a meal without meat is no meal at all, our leader, Hemanshu, is committed to providing an equal opportunities dining experience.

Kulle in Chawri Bazaar

Hemanshu Kumar — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:50:07 +0000

Chalk another one up for Shashank.

Several months ago, when the delicate evening chill meant you could look forward to winter rather than mourn its passing, we’d done a wonderful Navratra trip to Bazaar Sitaram and its precincts.

That’s when he’d dragged us to his favourite chaatwaala in Chawri Bazaar to show us [...]

Iftar at Jama Masjid

Hemanshu Kumar — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 11:23:34 +0000

It must be the age.

I can’t think of any other reason it took me a whole fortnight to figure out why I’d been looking at the world with such a jaundiced eye of late. Life had been toodling along quite nicely, until an EOiD plan in mid-September to visit

Ashoks the Great

Hemanshu Kumar — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 08:51:09 +0000

Once upon a time there ruled over twentieth-century Indraprastha, not one but two Ashoks, whose empire stretched as far as the eye could see, and their fame even beyond.

Okay, granted that the eye couldn’t see very far at all in twentieth-century Indraprastha, but you get the gist.

Every day when the sun would set [...]

Momo’s affair

Shashank Kumar — Fri, 25 May 2007 01:26:24 +0000

Zero is not India’s greatest contribution to mankind, it’s the Manchurian. What, with all the jeera, dhaniya, and even garam masala it seems right from the heart of the Guangdong province, doesn’t it?

The Nepali kancha cooking chowmein in that pseudo-wok (essentially a kadhai) isn’t all that bad, I’ve realized. I’ve had the ‘real’ Chinese [...]

A Hog Walk

Pankaj Molekhi — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 19:48:32 +0000

The idea of a late evening walk originally came from food buff Monali, an Orkut friend who works for CSE (those obsessive warriors against pesti-colas). Last winter, we had taken a long walk through the bylanes of Old Delhi, sampling a variety of meaty and vegetarian fare dotted between Jama Masjid and Red Fort. Since [...]

A Night Stroll near Jama Masjid

Pankaj Molekhi — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 13:43:00 +0000

Delhi’s answer to Lahore Food Street

[ed: we are thrilled to present our first guest column, by journalist and fellow foodie Pankaj Molekhi. Hopefully, this is the first of many to come!]

1900 hours: This is a time when shopkeepers in Delhi begin to pull down shutters; treetops get abuzz with homeward-bound birds; and Blueline [...]

Momos at Majnu ka Tila

Hemanshu Kumar — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 07:12:12 +0000

… and at Defence Colony

Having been stymied in our quest for Haji Noora’s Nihari, Abhik and I were racing past ISBT en route to Chawri Bazaar, when it struck him that we should stop at the Tibetan colony at Majnu ka Tila. Abhik was in quest of Sukuti, or strips of dried [...]

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